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Tobacco Ingredients

Ingredients in Cigarettes & Tobacco Products

There are more than 600 ingredients that go into making a tobacco product like cigarettes. When tobacco is burned, it produces more than 7,000 chemicals in its smoke. Among all of these substances, several hundred are toxic and about 70 cause cancer. But don’t be fooled into thinking that smokeless products like chewing tobacco are safe—they lead to cancer and other diseases too.

Major Ingredients

Tobacco

The tobacco plant, Nicotiana tabacum, is a member of the nightshade plant family that includes potatoes, eggplants, tomatoes and peppers.

There are many different varieties of tobacco and it is grown in countries around the world.